Welcome to the Attention Deficit Disorder Expert Podcast series by Attitude Magazine.

Hi everyone, my name is Annie Rogers and on behalf of the attitude team,

I'm so pleased to welcome you to today's very special ADHD experts presentation.

Today we are joined by Dr. Temple Grandin, autism expert, author, scientist, and much more

for an open conversation and a live Q&A. Dr. Grandin is a professor of animal science at

Colorado State University and has been an outspoken advocate for autistic people and for the brilliance

of neurodiversity. In 2010 she was named a hero in the time 100 list of the most influential people

in the world. She was also the subject of the 2010 ME and Golden Globe winning

biographical film starring Claire Danes named Temple Grandin. You should watch it if you haven't.

She became an expert in the field of livestock behavior and facilities design where her

innovations have transformed practices for the humane handling of livestock in slaughterhouses.

Dr. Grandin has received honorary degrees from more universities than I can name.

And I want to note that today's webinar is not actually a webinar, it's a conversation.

As such we will not have our standard slides but we will provide access to supplemental resources

under the event resources section of your screen. We encourage you to submit questions at any time

and we will try to reserve the last half of our conversation to ask your questions of Dr. Grandin.

Before we begin I would like to ask a poll question for our live audience. Which of the following

best describes either your or your child's thinking style? We have object visualizers,

generally speaking, these are generally for all of them. These people excel with mechanical

abilities, building things artwork, they may hate algebra. Spatial visualizers, excel at math,

patterns, music, computer programming, may hate reading. Verbal factual excels at reading

language, abstract thought and history probably does not like drawing. And auditory thinkers excel at

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